as business support measures, in addition to the financial and fiscal proposals put forward today the possibility of easing environmental requirements. Environmentalists believe that such measures will adversely affect the health of citizens, will entail environmental and financial losses. “Over the past two years Russia has significantly increased the priority of sustainable development, important steps were made towards a green economy in September 2019 Russia joined the Paris climate agreement”, − stated in the letter (there is a “RG”).
the Authors propose to support the “green” sector such measures as the inclusion of additional “green” and climate requirements in public procurement, the development of public-private partnerships for protected natural areas for ecotourism development, the creation of opportunities to attract regional or municipal authorities targeted funds through the mechanism of placing “green” bonds, the issuance of special purpose sovereign green bonds to Fund programs in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other sectors of the green economy.
This will help to create the conditions for careful nature management, and at the same time, in the medium term is to maintain health, ensure the welfare of people, to create qualitatively new jobs and increase the attractiveness of the Russian economy for foreign investors. “Attracting foreign investment is an important task, together with the development of public-private partnerships, increasing the efficiency of budget spending and the involvement of the private sector, including for the implementation of the ambitious national project “Ecology”, − stated in the message.
